In the past two months I have noticed that “How to stop the gay agenda” keeps showing up as a search term that directs people to my blog. While I am sad to see this as a search engine term, I take some comfort knowing it takes people to this story–not exactly a story on how to stop the gay agenda.
I cringe when I learn that people really do believe we, the LGBT community, have an agenda. If we do, it must be one of charity, peace, civil rights, and social justice. If we really do subscribe to the absurd notion of the scary Gay Agenda, I have yet another example of it.
Married lesbian couple Hege Dalen and Toril Hansen were some of the first to help victims in the shooting massacre in Norway. You will remember that Anders Behring Breivik went on a shooting rampage at a youth camp and then set off a bomb in Oslo. Hege Dalen and Toril Hansen made repeated trips in their small boat rescuing injured and bloodied kids. The couple endangered their own lives in rescuing the youth:
Dalen and Hansen drove the boat to the island, picked up from the water victims in shock … the young and wounded, and transported them to the opposite shore to the mainland. Between runs they saw that the bullets had hit the right side of the boat. Since there were so many and not all fit at once aboard, they returned to the island four times. They were able to rescue 40 young people from the clutches of the killer.
Here we see the gay agenda is about charity and helping out your fellow human being as we all have to share this planet together. The gay agenda shows us how similar we are as humans, rather than how different. Who one chooses as a spouse is immaterial to how one chooses to live one’s life, with integrity and character.